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Chuang Liu¹, Chi Ho Yeung, Zi-Ke Zhang

¹School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

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Low user confidence drives self-organization and active tagging in social systems. High confidence leads to inactive tagging, with a phase transition observed at a critical confidence level.

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Area of Science:

Social dynamics
Computational social science
Information science

Background:

Individuals often imitate others to conform to group norms, leading to self-organized behaviors within communities.
Social tagging systems involve users contributing tags to content, influencing collective behavior and information organization.

Purpose of the Study:

To model the dynamics of self-organization in social tagging systems.
To investigate how individual user confidence influences tagging activity and system behavior.

Main Methods:

Developed a computational model where individuals adjust their tagging tendency based on the average tagging tendency of the community.
Analyzed the system's behavior across different levels of user confidence.
Compared model-generated post length distributions with real-world data.

Main Results:

Low user confidence promotes imitation, resulting in a self-organized state with high tagging activity.
High user confidence and resistance to change lead to inactive tagging.
A phase transition in system behavior was identified at a critical user confidence level.

Conclusions:

User confidence is a critical factor determining the level of activity and self-organization in social tagging systems.
The model successfully replicates observed tagging behaviors, validating the proposed dynamics.
Findings provide insights into the mechanisms driving collective behavior in online social platforms.